[Eighth]

I like the idea. Some thoughts;

I think you'll need a threshold of when a HN post is worthy of a summary (e.g. number of points), and a way of tracking work like a backlog of posts that are awaiting a summary to ensure you don't have duplicated work and to keep track of work volume.

Once a summary is posted, any comment afterwards won't be included in the summary. You'll need to decide if a summary of comments is written a longer time after the the summary of the post is written to get a good sample of the comments.

A summary will need to be completed soon before the peak of popularity to ensure maximum exposure and effect.

[sytse]

1. Makes sense, I think the criteria would be hitting the homepage and updated the form to reflect that.

2. I'm not anticipating a summary of comments, just of the article.

3. I agree that getting the summary quickly (at most one hour after hitting the homepage) is essential. We can even consider looking at the top 50 and making summaries before they hit the homepage. The first person doing this might not able to make one for every homepage article but if it is a success we can scale up later.